finally somebody into the state has listening and you know now he has a chance was sentenced to death for the 1997 murder of his boss, barry van trees. they worked at a motel in oklahoma city. but it was another employee, justin sneed, who admitted to killing van trees. sneed who is serving a life sentence was spared the death penalty in exchange for testifying that glossip offered to pay him for the killing. the oklahoma attorney general says sneed is a compromised witness, though, and independent investigation found that prosecutors destroyed and withheld evidence from glossip s defense attorneys. there s also evidence that sneed regretted his testimony in letters, he writes. do i have the choice of recanting my testimony and there are a lot of things right now that are eating at me some things i need to clean up. you can have this hope. it s like having a little bit of light at the end of the whole family.